Mark Engler's regular column from the magazine
When it comes to inequality in America, reality and self-image are at war.
The self-image is that everyone in the country is part of the ‘middle class’. Attempting to disqualify someone from that ever-accommodating category is like trying to convince Dick Cheney that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction secretly stashed in his spider hole.
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